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How did "atheism+" lead to "cancel culture", and how is "atheism+" different from just atheism?
For the first part of your question, it was one of the very first situations where the modern life ruination strategy that would then become known as "Cancel Culture" was refined to a point where anyone could have it be done to them with a dedicated enough group who sought to destroy someone with Fairgame-derived tactics. As for Atheism+, it effectively tried to hijack the larger Atheism/Freethinker movement of the day to become shocktroops for all the usual social justice shit. The rest of the movement was not that pleased about being forced to not question anything about it. In the end, neither group won but the tactics and tools developed during this became commonplace during the 2010's across the greater western world.
 
What's ironic is that atheism is supposed to be the lack of belief.

This "Atheism+" thing is a belief system which evolved into a cult.
More or less. Since the movement had a lot of cult survivors who instantly recognized what this shit was gonna be, they ensured that those who they trusted knew how to fight against this nonsense.
 
There's a handful of "old growth" articles about medical quackery that are still alright but those all predate the woke takeover of the site.



And now we're seeing the fundies start to slowly make a comeback except now they're calling themselves "traditionalists" all thanks to the pseudo-scientific dogmatic bullshit of wokester atheists.

Talk about a Pyrrhic Victory.
The fedoras never won anything, it was always an entirely internet movement, even the flat earth movement managed to transform it's internet success around the same time into an irl organization/movement. The fedora movement was entirely ephemeral, nothing demonstrates this better than the growth of the Radical Right, who is often intrinsically religious, at the same time during the 2000s and the fact that many of the fedora movement would go on to support this movements and change their stances on religion.
 
She’s been briefly covered on these forums before. Not sure if she strikes me as the type who hangs around rationalwiki. But who knows. I got in a trolling feud with her as theinterlang
You give off highly spergy vibes.

I suggest completely leaving the internet until you make up on the social adjusting that should’ve happened in childhood and adolescence.
 
how is "atheism+" different from just atheism?
It's right in the name. It's atheism, plus social justice/intersectionalism/gender identity/whatever is the current-year thing. It was one of the more overt instances of entryism, taking over an existing sub-culture and turning it into just another hive of fragile, egotistic blowhards, who use their feeling of personal offence as a weapon to eject anyone that doesn't follow their ideology in every aspect. Atheism+ has literally nothing to do with atheism as a set of principles.
 
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